Chapter 3 Chu Sinan's Planning
The arrival of the final battle period of the Eastern Front and the end of the Kursk Battle on the Western Front mark the end of the war that lasted several years in the Soviet Union, and the key points of the Kremlin's work will soon shift from the "heavy army" in the war to the "heavy economy". The country's main focus will shift from war to the post-war economic recovery.
There is no doubt that Chu Sinan had no idea about how to develop the economy, especially how to develop the economy quickly, stably, comprehensively and effectively. To put it bluntly, his understanding of the shortcomings of the Soviet Union's economic system almost all came from the little things he had learned in history books. He knew that before the formal collapse of the Soviet Union, there were various disadvantages in the Soviet Union, both in politics, economy and other aspects.
Politically, the problems of corruption, bureaucracy and formalism in the domestic officialdom spread across the country and became popular; party members' thoughts are rigid, stick to the rules, and follow the old-fashioned, and left-leaning tendencies involve the whole party, causing ideological confusion among most party members across the country; the phenomenon of fighting for power and profit within the party is obvious and common, which directly leads to chaos in various domestic policies. The Kremlin is no longer the place to seek development and happiness for the Soviet people, but has become a chaotic arena; the long-term spread of the "Great Russia"ism and the Kremlin's large-scale dumping of the Soviet model have led to the centrifugation of the entire Eastern European socialist group, the "Information Agency Incident", the "Kostov Case", the "December Incident", the "Poznan Incident", etc., a series of bloody and cruel hegemony incidents have completely lost the public opinion basis in Eastern Europe, and thus created opportunities for Western countries to first implement peaceful evolution strategies in Eastern Europe.
Economically, the problems that the Soviet Union had seemed to be even more serious. As early as Lenin's rule, in order to cope with the siege of domestic counter-revolutionary forces abroad, the policy of communism was implemented during the war. It is obvious that this policy, at the time of productivity and social development, must be at the expense of the people's interests. However, this price was afforded by the Soviets who were enthusiastic about revolution at that time, and were basically willing to bear it. However, as time went on, the domestic situation was
With the stability of the situation, people began to doubt this policy. Fortunately, Lenin soon realized the aggressiveness of the policy and immediately corrected it. After the abolition of the communist policy during the war, Lenin began to implement the "new economic policy" with the core of state capitalism. Although this policy was not understood by radical revolutionaries to a certain extent, it played a positive role in promoting the development of socialism in the Soviet Union, and at the same time laid a solid foundation for the subsequent development of the Soviet Union.
Lenin was a meticulous and clear-headed man, but his life was obviously not as profound and continuous as his influence. Just when all the developments in the Soviet Union were just on the right track, he left.
After Lenin, Stalin began to preside over the work of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. This Georgian, who had a biased understanding of proletarian internationalism from the beginning and was greatly influenced by the Great Russian chauvinism, almost completely denied Lenin's thoughts. After a series of great anti-counterfeiting, great purges and intra-party struggles, he began to establish the social system of the Soviet Union with a highly concentrated planning of the economy and centralized power. Under the influence of this model, the Soviet Union completed the transformation of industrial nationalization and agricultural collectivization through two five-year plans, and at the same time, the economy also flew away.
Rapid development has become the first and second industrial power in Europe and the second world. However, while the heavy industry is developing rapidly, the Soviet Union almost gave up its attention to light industry and agriculture. After all, the development of these two industries cannot promote the rapid economic development and the rapid and powerful military power in the short term. In this way, after the end of the two five-year plans, the Soviet Union could create the world's most advanced tanks, but could not create military uniforms and military boots that were equipped with a huge army. Ukraine, known as the "European" Yonekura, broke out between 32 and 33 years.
As we all know, for a newly established regime, the first thing the ruler has to do is to improve the people's living standards as much as possible. This is the primary task of a new regime and must be implemented and implemented. But the Soviet Union was obviously not the case. Stalin's policy was basically a continuation of the former emperor's Russian policy. He placed blindly expanding arms and fighting for world hegemony in the first place in the national policy, so that after the end of World War II, the Soviet Union still did not emerge from the state of war for decades. The people's living standards, especially the living standards of farmers, continued to be unimproved, and various major living supplies were scarce.
Following Stalin, Khrushchev took over as the First Secretary of the CPC Central Committee. This Soviet leader who had lived in the shadow of Stalin for a long time was obviously aware of the mistakes caused by the Stalin model, and he also tried to carry out a thorough and drastic reform. However, in the end, due to the pressure of the domestic situation, coupled with the external Polish incident and Sino-Soviet debate, and his complete and almost crazy denial of Stalin, he made the most of his efforts to fail in the reform.
Lao He finally stepped down in Comrade Lao Bo's coup. The first secretary from the Security Committee finally withdrew from the unpredictable political stage in disgrace.
After Khrushchev stepped down, Brezhnev, who followed up, was originally a mediocre guy. At the same time, since he took the coup route, his main work was not on reform or economic development at the beginning of his power. On the contrary, he placed his main experience on consolidating his rule. To be honest, the Soviet problem laid the evil cause during the reign of Stalin and Khrushchev, and during Brezhnev, this evil cause grew rapidly.
As a leader who lacks prestige and mediocre ability, in order to consolidate his comrades, Brezhnev, on the one hand, bought people's hearts and implemented a lifelong system for leading cadres, which directly led to the aging of the state's regime, lack of vitality in political life, and seeking stability and evil changes. Bureaucracy and corruption are rampant. On the other hand, in order to win prestige, he was militant to foreign troops and was exhausted and the people were damaged. By the late Brezhnev's reign, the Soviet treasury had become empty and weak, and the country's economy was stagnant and even declined year by year. The so-called "developed socialism" had become a veritable "stagnant socialism."
After Brezhnev, Andropov and Chernenko came to power one after another, and they must say responsibly. These two, especially Andropov, were a leader with great insight. They both realized how serious the social problems in the Soviet Union were. Therefore, they not only tried to make great efforts to fight the corruption in the country, but the former also tried to learn from their neighbors, such as implementing a family contract responsibility system to mobilize the enthusiasm of farmers for production. Unfortunately, both of them were famous for their short lives. Andropov died suddenly due to kidney disease after only fifteen months in power. His successor Chernenko died in the west after only thirteen months of reign. Therefore, their propositions and policies did not come to effectively implement the promulgation.
After Andropov and Chernenko, the famous Gorbachev was undoubtedly a great, successful and accomplished Soviet leader. His achievements are visible to all the world and lasting forever. He is also the only leader in Soviet history to win the Nobel Peace Prize. During his reign for several years, this leader did the most amazing thing, that is, dismantling the glorious alliance of Soviet Republics for 74 years, thereby saving the Soviet people from the dire straits of the Soviet Union.
However, most of the former Soviet Union's citizens seemed to be hostile to the leader who rescued them. In the 1996 Russian Federation election, Gorbachev, who ran for election, actually got only one percent of the vote. That's not counting. After Putin became president of the Russian Federation, the Russian State Duma filed a criminal lawsuit against the peaceful last leader of the former Soviet Union on the charge of "the collapse of the Soviet Union was the culprit of the suffering we suffered."
History is true, it is the most ruthless and objective teacher. The "New Book of Tang Dynasty Biography of Wei Zheng" says: "Using history as a lesson, you can know the rise and fall."
Chu Sinan is not a senior politician. He does not have enough capital to show off in terms of how to govern the country, but compared with the general, he has a great advantage, that is, he has a full understanding of the shortcomings of Soviet society, regime, and system. Since he has realized these shortcomings, Chu Sinan is equivalent to taking one step ahead of others. He can consider and implement his own ideas from the perspective of eliminating these shortcomings.
After some consideration, Chu Sinan decided to first adjust his attention to three aspects, namely economic adjustment, political rectification, and military recovery.
Military recovery is easier to understand, that is, on the east and west fronts, the Soviet army's subsequent offensive must be further strengthened in order to end this damn war in the shortest possible time. Of course, military recovery is not such a simple problem.
In Chu Sinan's consideration, after the war ended, millions of Soviet Red Army needed to undergo a thorough reorganization. There is no doubt that in the war that lasted for several years, the number of Soviet Red Army was expanded to an unprecedented level, but at the same time, the quality of the army also declined significantly. According to Chu Sinan's idea, once the war ended, hundreds of troops of the Soviet Red Army must be reduced to a certain extent. Those troops that were weak in combat or could not be organized due to reduced personnel must be discharged, and those soldiers who were not suitable for joining the army due to physical and other factors must also be demobilized and returned to their hometowns. This is a measure that kills two birds with one stone. On the one hand, it can improve the combat effectiveness of the troops, and on the other hand, it can save military expenditure to a certain extent.
In terms of political rectification, there are mainly two aspects, one is ideological rectification, and the other is the rectification of the behavior of political practitioners. The former aims to eliminate the "left" thought and the remaining toxicity of Great Russian chauvinism left over from Stalin's rule. Chu Sinan believes that only by doing this step can the Soviet Union prepare for the post-war international communist movement. The international communist movement under Stalin's presidency is a rough interference in the politics of other countries and the forced dumping of the Soviet model. Obviously, this is not conducive to the unity of international communist forces and the harmony of the communist world. This is a hidden danger and must be completely eliminated. As for the latter, it is not conducive to the unity of international communist forces and is not conducive to the harmony of the communist world. This is a hidden danger and must be completely eliminated.
That is the rectification of the Soviet ruling class. Its main purpose is to combat bureaucracy and corruption and eliminate the privileged class in Soviet social life. To achieve this, Chu Sinan believes that the most effective way is to use the power of the Security Committee. After all, in the entire Soviet Union, the power of the Security Committee is everywhere. Looking at the entire Soviet history and even the subsequent Russian history, generations of leaders were directly from the Security Committee, including Chu Sinan himself. From this perspective, if Chu Sinan wants to rectify the regime, he must start with the Security Committee. First, rectify this main anti-corruption force.
This is the second time Chu Sinan has implemented a large-scale rectification of the Safety Committee. He personally gave the two heads of the Safety Committee at this time. Gilnilova and Klyuchkov issued an order that the Safety Committee must establish a new local agency  ̄ ̄ "Anti-Corruption Reconnaissance Bureau". The main task of the bureau is to supervise the local organizations of the Safety Committee and the integrity of personnel. The bureau enjoys the power to sentence the death penalty without judicial trial. In short, it is to punish the staff of the Safety Committee. Once a corruption case is discovered, no matter the severity of the circumstances, it will be sentenced to heavy punishment, so as to ensure the integrity of the Safety Committee to the greatest extent.
A series of facts later proved that the work of the Anti-Corruption Reconnaissance Bureau was successful, an institution that overrides power and judicial power within the Security Committee has maintained its integrity for decades. Although there is a constant struggle for power within this agency, no one has ever been suspected of corruption cases, or even to be honest. The people in this agency, whether the head of the local bureau or the head of the General Administration, have always been economically honest. In the regulations formulated by the Bureau for personnel of the Security Committee, the result of each punishment is a cruel thing. As long as any personnel of the Security Committee involves corruption cases, officials outside the committee will be handed over to procuratorial.
The agency tried the conviction, but the personnel in the committee would not be dealt with in this way. What they faced directly was that they were confiscated and secretly executed by the security committee. The bureau never let those who defected abroad because of corruption cases. In 1947, Sucherkov, secretary of the Irkutsk Prefecture, was suspected of bribery. After investigation and convicted of him, the security committee defected to Britain in South America and obtained asylum from the British government. But in just one and a half months later, he was secretly assassinated by the security committee agents at the door of the residence. This case set a precedent for the security committee to pursue the people involved in the case and overseas due to corruption cases, and also shocked those who were lucky.
The fact that Chu Sinan carried out anti-corruption work in the Soviet Union proved that the problem of corruption is not unsolvable and overcome. The key question is whether the government is really determined to make great efforts to combat corruption, and whether it can use dictatorship to give bloody warnings to corrupt elements or speculators who tend to be corrupt. When the "chicken" who first seeks to commit the most ruthlessness in the world and attempts to be corrupt is killed, the "monkeys" who try to follow him will carefully consider whether the hand they stretched out should be retracted. At least they must consider whether the ill-gotten wealth they have saved with their lives, or whether they or their families have the opportunity to enjoy it.
Chu Sinan does not believe that, and he will never think that he should show mercy to those corrupt officials. Since they are greedy for those ill-gotten wealth and even want to make themselves and their families live a happy life through those ill-gotten wealth, then the anti-corruption people must completely eliminate their thoughts. Corrupts are punished and sentenced strictly, and all family wealth is confiscated. While making the corruption die of shame, they must also let his family spend the rest of their lives in bleakness.
As for economic strategies, Chu Sinan could not consider it so complete. To be honest, he had no extraordinary common sense about how to govern the economy and how to develop the economy. Of course, he understood the problems in the Soviet economic system, but one thing was that understanding the problems did not mean that it could be solved well and overcome the problems. This is a concept of two aspects and cannot be generalized. Indeed, in the Soviet economic model, there were too many plans and not enough attention to light industry and agriculture. But is it okay to put aside the planned things completely? That is obviously unrealistic. Turning around, putting aside the emphasis on heavy industry and focusing on the development of light industry and agriculture, or both, and letting them go hand in hand? Obviously, that is not feasible.
Fortunately, Chu Sinan is now the first secretary of the CPC Central Committee and the actual head of the government, so he doesn't need to think of some problems himself. To handle the development relationship between heavy industry, light industry, and agriculture, and to deal with the key issues of the Soviet economic work in the early post-war period, what Chu Sinan has to do is to combine the part of the history he knows, raise some key contradictions, and raise the main issues that should be noticed in his work. The rest can be left to various government departments to deal with, otherwise, what will the Joint Conference of Soviet Ministers in Nouvelle do?
Chapter completed!